First of all... 5029. 5029.5029.
For any normies who somehow got here, "5029." is the natural port number for SRB2 as a whole. This release DOES NOT HAVE SINGLE PLAYER CONTENT OUTSIDE OF STAFF ATTACK. To get the full experience, you HAVE to rely on servers to be up to play with other human beings. There are no CPU-players.
If you wanna put up your own? You have to port-forward TCP/UDP to 5029

It isn't a totally client-sided game either, you will experience latency. So make sure your opponents (and YOU) have low ping.

*cough*

That's all from me.

Now without further ado, in Sryder's own words...

SRB2Kart is a classic styled kart racer, complete with beautiful courses, and wacky items. Of course, because it’s SRB2Kart, it has a Sonic twist that really shows the classic charm that a lot of us know and love from the good old days™.

We have 100 jam-packed maps for you to bump, explode, and sparkle your way through, from luscious beaches, to Eggman’s dance floor, to England on a good day. All lovingly crafted by many different people. You’ll notice almost every aspect of the game has an immense love and inspiration from the classic sonic games. From the items such as Ballhog, which literally throws bouncey explodey balls at people, to the maps which are bursting with that Sonic feel.

Of course, you'll only start off with a few cups available, but you can unlock more by playing offline/online matches. Alternatively, you can immediately jump into challenging yourself and race us personally in Staff Attack mode! Don't worry, we'll go easy on you.

Game Modes
We have 2 game modes for you to choose from: Race, and Battle.
Race mode is the normal: Race through the track to beat your opponents, use your items and skill to swooce past the competition, Oh my God what is that following behind me HELP! You know, the usual.

Battle mode asks you to violently throw spikeballs at your friends until they have no bumpers and you have some. But watch out, they can come back with a vengeance and chase you to the ends of the earth afterwards! Or maybe if they’re feeling nice they might help you with a powered up item
chance.

Spoiler: Characters

As you’ll find, we have 5 characters in the base game to enjoy, all with very distinct stats. Before we go into them individually, I’ll explain how our stats work. We have separate variables that effect the way a character plays. Speed, and Weight. Higher speed gives you a greater top speed, but sacrifices your ability to accelerate, higher weight reduces your control over your drifting, but you bump players that you are heavier than more violently. Your combination of speed & weight decide how fast you earn drift sparks. We have this shown clearly on a handy dandy grid on the character selection screen in the main menu, pick the character that aligns with your desires most!

Sonic
Sonic is just what you’d expect from our favorite blue hero! Pretty fast and agile! He’s got some good speed, and can control his drifts pretty well, just make sure you get the drift boosts because otherwise you’ll fall behind!

Tails
Our cute fox boy Tails! Tails has slow speed, but can really get going quickly, he can also take incredibly tight turns all the time, get close to those corners for him to really slip past people!

Knuckles
Here he comes, tougher than the rest of them. Knuckles is average in both stats, he’s very balanced, and likely a good pick if you don’t know who to try first!

Dr. Eggman
Ohohohohoho! Eggman has come along to steal the competition! He’s quite slow though, so take advantage of his fast drift-spark rate and his immense weight to stop others from overtaking!

Metal Sonic
*Loud Angry Robot Noises* Metal Sonic is fast, and heavy. He’ll fly through the courses if given the chance, but his cornering leaves much to be desired…

Bonus Ducks Characters
Included with the main download is bonuschars.kart. We don’t add it by default, but you can easily do so from the add-ons menu for many more characters to play with! A slew of extras, by a trio of our other devs in their free-time!

The Various Other Things
-Make sure to check out the in-game manual by pressing F1 or using the menu if you need some help or tips!
-We’ve added some extra Quality of Life features from the vanilla game to help out, such as multi-admin and a chat system that is readable!
-There’s a slight lack of documentation for modding currently, we’ll try and get on that as soon as we can.

Music
We plan to redo the crediting in some fashion eventually so all the track sources can be included in-game, but until then they'll all just be right here for very easy viewing!

Why are there so many different download links? I don't know which one to use! Not to mention there are like 2 areas of download information. Be nice if that was explained. For now I will randomly pick files until something. Look forward to this interesting game.

After playing this all I can say is that this way too hard and I personally really do not like it. I am always last so yeah for me this sucks. No offense to those who worked hard on it and it does look nice but when you always come last it sucks and yeah.

After playing this all I can say is that this way too hard and I personally really do not like it. I am always last so yeah for me this sucks. No offense to those who worked hard on it and it does look nice but when you always come last it sucks and yeah.

As there is no AI it's only really as hard as the other players are good. Admittedly, there are some pretty good players out there haha. There are a few people I can't get anywhere near atm but generally I'm pretty competitive, kart racers have always been my jam though. Do you play other kart racers out of interest?

I find the game so damn fun I couldn't care less if I'm first or last xD

As there is no AI it's only really as hard as the other players are good. Admittedly, there are some pretty good players out there haha. There are a few people I can't get anywhere near atm but generally I'm pretty competitive, kart racers have always been my jam though. Do you play other kart racers out of interest?

I find the game so damn fun I couldn't care less if I'm first or last xD

I am usually decent at those types of games but that one was horrible. I do not know about you but one thing I hate is always being last. Like with the AI and multiplayer I was always last like way last and only once did I get second to last. I do not mind being last since somebody has to be but always being last turned me off and turning is incredibly difficult. You have to always slow down before turning or else you crash or fall off ledge.

You cannot. Record Attack needs no modifications added in order to be played. If you wish to join a game, the server has to be using Bonuschars. If it is, just join without any mods like bonuschars active, and they will be added as you join.

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...turning is incredibly difficult. You have to always slow down before turning or else you crash or fall off ledge.

I think most racing involves slowing down for turns haha ;)

In all seriousness though, when starting out if you just let go of accelerate as you go round turns you can go round pretty much anything easily with no drama (assuming you're not boosting towards the corner). You can then work up to drifting turns. If you want to drift tighter turns though you'll need to start drifting earlier than you probably think or you'll run too wide.

It's a bummer if you don't like it though, I want as many people as possible to play so that there are always people to race :P

Is anyone else getting this "I_Error(): Z_Free: wrong id" error when trying to play online? I've been getting this error for a few hours now and it's starting to get on my nerves. Is there a fix for this?

a few days later, I've got the slight hang of the controls.
while the old 2.0 control scheme doesn't work here, the new controls work very well, even better than the 2.0 control scheme.
but the bumping... jeeeeeeeesus, if there was anything I hated about multiplayer, it's the exaggerated bumping here. it wasn't bad in 2.0, but good lord it's INSANE.

This is incredibly cool but I freaking suck at it, any tips for keeping my character on the damn track?
Some of these courses are frickin hard

It is okay. I suck at this game too. I am guessing you are always last no matter what. Not just last but way last. Games suck if you are always last. They should really have a tutorial or something to help people like us. Maybe host a game and call it Newbies Only that way the good or regular players not show up and it would be more fair for you and everybody else.